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Most recent forum messagesenSun, 25 Aug 2013 14:30:18 GMTJive SBS 4.5.6.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/)2013-08-25T14:30:18ZenRe: Another spider id please!!http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/33638?tstart=0#33638
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:3d531488-3a77-4d8a-a11c-d414b8c5cecb] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi Mark</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thankyou very much for the answer.&#160; In that case I'll leave it in peace to help keep the fly population under control.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Regards</p><p>Andrew</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:3d531488-3a77-4d8a-a11c-d414b8c5cecb] -->Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:30:18 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/33638?tstart=0#33638adw19762013-08-25T14:30:18Z1 year, 6 months ago0Re: Another spider id please!!http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/33588?tstart=0#33588
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:94702428-826c-468f-a8ad-44c0c23c21f7] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi ADW1976,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>The spotting on the abdomen looks too inconsistent for the Mediterranean black widow. General colouring &amp; infrequency of spotting makes e wonder if it's not a Steatoda grossa (a false widow common in N Europe including the UK). Here's one I found in my bedroom last night...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j388/MWJB/Steatoda%20grossa/IMG_0861_zps01c6990f.jpg">http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j388/MWJB/Steatoda%20grossa/IMG_0861_zps01c6990f.jpg</a><span>[/IMG][/URL]</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Compare to your specimens &amp; see what you think. Mine's rather young, the abdomens can be considerably darker as they get older.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Regards, Mark.</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:94702428-826c-468f-a8ad-44c0c23c21f7] -->Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:35:29 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/33588?tstart=0#33588MWJB2013-08-24T16:35:29Z1 year, 6 months ago10Another spider id please!!http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/33581?tstart=0#33581
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:cdb3989a-4288-4374-9260-02400d8548aa] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I'm living in France, just south of Paris and I've found this spider in the outhouse and wondered if anyone knows what it is.&#160; I'm guessing there's nothing poisonous in france but I hear you can get black widows in the south of france and was half wondering if this is a male (due to the white dots on his back).&#160; I know the males aren't poisonous so I've left it there for the moment.&#160; I'm just hoping that there's no female around if it is a widow.</p><p>Anyway, I couldn't catch it because it's surrounded by loads of silk threads and anytime I got close i touched one and the spider legged it.&#160; I've managed to take a macro photo.&#160; The spider is about 1-2cm.&#160; As I say, it's still there so if you need a better picture I'll try and catch it first.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-33581-59617/PICT0232.JPG"><img alt="PICT0232.JPG" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="337" onclick="" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-33581-59617/450-337/PICT0232.JPG" width="450"/></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thanks for your help.</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:cdb3989a-4288-4374-9260-02400d8548aa] -->Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:41:44 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/33581?tstart=0#33581adw19762013-08-24T14:41:44Z1 year, 6 months ago20